St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-06-04

| finances so reconstructed that all the
| stock gamblers of Wall street combined
cannot make national panic; 1862, sur
geons of the land setting broken bones,
and amputating gangrened limbs, and
studying gunshot fractures, and invent
ing easy ambulances for the wounded and
| dying; 1887, surgeons giving attention
to those in casualty of agriculture, of
commerce or mechanical life, the rush
ing of the ambulance through our streets,
not suggesting battle but quick relief OF
some one fallen in peaceful industries;
1862, thirty-five million inhabitants
in this land; 1887, tifty.fye million ;
1862, wheat, about eighty million bushels
dred million bushels 1862, Pacific coast
three reasons, Union Pacific, Southern
days across. Look at the long line of
houses with which during the last few
years this land has been decorated
Living soldiers of the North and South
take new and special ordination at this
season of the year to garland the sepul-
is too good for their memories. Turn all
the private tombs and the national GENE
teries into gardens Ye dead of Malvern
Hill, and Cold Harbor, and Murfrees-
boro', and Manassas Junction, and Cum.
berland Gap, and field hospital, receive
these floral offerings of the living sol
diers.
But they shall come agaln-all the
dead troops We sometimes talk about
earthly military reviews, such as took
place in Paris in the time of Marshal
Ney, in London in the time of yelling
ton, and in our own land; but what tame
things compared with the final review
for divine and angelic inspection St
on white horses, and | don't
know but many of the old cav
airy horses of earthly battle, that were
wounded and worn uut in service, may
have resurrection. 1t would be only
fair that, raised up and ennobled, they
would be resurrected for the grand re-
view of the judgment day. 1t would not
take any more power to reconstruct
their bodies than to reconstruct ours,
and | should. be very glad to see them
vision. Hank to the trumpet blast, the
reveille of the last Judgment! They
come up. All the armies of all lands
fought, whether for freedom or despot-
ism, for the right or the wrong. They
come They come! Darius and Cyrus
leading forth the armies of Scriptural
iho1
ing forth the. armies of the Cartha
ginians; Victor Emanuel and Garibaldi
leading on the armies of the Italians;
Tamerlane and Ghengis Khan, followed
by the armies of Asia; Gustavus Adolf
plus, and Ptolemy Philopater, and
Nerxes, and Alexander, and Semiramis,
and Washington, leading battalion after
battalion. The dead American armies of
1875 and 1912, and 100000 of Northern
and Southern dead in our civil war,
they come up. They pass on in review.
The 100000 fallen in Napoleonic bat
ties, the 100000 Germans fallen in the
Thirty Years War, the 100000 fallen
in the war under Sesostris, the 10000 00C
fallen in the wars of Justinian, the
25,O00,000 fallen in Jewish wars, the
SO,OOO,000 fallen in the Crusades, the $780,.
900, 900 fallen in the wars with Saracens
and Turks; the 35,00O,O00,OOO men esti-
mated to have fallen in battle, enough
according to one statistican, if they stood
four abreast, to reach clear around the
earth 4!2 times.
But we shall have time to see them
pass in review before the throne of
judgment, the cavalrymen, the artillery
men, the spearmen, the infantry. the
the gunners, the sappers
the miners, the archers, the skirmishers,
men of all colors, of all epaulets, of all
standards, of all weaponry, Of all coun-
tries. Let the earth be especially bal
anced to bear their tread. Forward ! |
forward Let the orchestra of the |
galleries play the grand march,
joined by all the fifers, drummers and |
military bands that ever sounded victory
or defeat at Eylau Or Borodino, Mara
thon or Thermopyla, Bunker Hill |
or Yorktown, soldiers of Balaclava,
Sedan or Gettysburg, from the time when
Joshua halted astronomy above Gideon
and Ajalon till the last man surrendered
to Garnet Wolseley at Tel-el-Kebir. Ma
tons, companies, battalions, ages, CEN
turtles and the universe! Forward in the
grand review of the Judgment For
ward! Gracious and eternal God on
hat day may it be found that we are all
in the right regiment and that
we carried the right standard, and that
we fought under the right commander
Ill Heaven, some on amethystine battle
nent and others standing in the shining
yates, some on pearly shore and others
IN turreted heights, giving us the re-
million-voiced cheer: 'Lo him
hat overcomethr' Blessed be the Lord
iod of Israel from everlasting to ever
asting, and let the whole earth be filled
With his glory. Amen and Aman,'